Wednesday, November 23, 2011

I'm really looking forward to Thanksgiving this year. We have two invitations, and we've accepted both. That means that we'll eat an early-afternoon dinner and also an evening dinner. I will get some of that good fall-asleep turkey so that I can watch the football games with my eyes closed -- as usual.

The first dinner will be at our neighbor's house. What a feast they will have! The hostess is from Georgia and can really cook up a feast fit for a king. But the really entertaining part of the celebration at our neighbor's house will be finding out what idiocy our liberal neighbor's Leftwing son, has come up with this year. He is a staunch Obama supporter and still proudly sports his Obama 2008 stupidity sticker on his parents' old Saturn station wagon. This 41 year old will not work for "the man," so he takes handouts from his capitalistic parents. Go figure. He's bringing his new girlfriend, who is a fire dancer. Apparently, she is going to perform. Heh.

The second dinner will be at the ritzy home of one of Mrs. AOW's homeschool families. This feast will have both traditional American Thanksgiving food and Chinese food because the family is from China. Mrs. AOW cannot refuse an invitation from homeschool parents -- especially the Chinese, as they bow with great respect to teachers and view refusing an invitation as an insult. Besides, I want to eat the food there!

Getting two meals on Thanksgiving Day will make up for my missed dinner on November 18, when I went to a gun show and the damn handicapped transport van left a friend and me (He's also handicapped) stranded for hours. By the time we finally got back to the house, it was too late to eat dinner. It's a wonder that we didn't have to spend the night in the expensive hotel near the convention center where the gun show was being held.

Friday, November 11, 2011

Most Americans don't begin to appreciate our military veterans enough.

Only lately, did I, a veteran, ever hear "Thanks for serving." In fact, the first time I was ever thanked for my service was at a Gathering of Eagles event in 2005. I served during the Vietnam War Era.

Today, on this Veterans Day, or any day for that matter, say "Thank you!" to an American veteran.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

As a lifelong coin collector and a former coin dealer, I find these coins unique in that they have the date, mint mark, and motto on the edge of the coin. This placement of the engraving has never been produced before by the U.S. Mint and brings the idea of three sides to a coin to a new level. I'd personally like to see the series completed, but the good idea has flopped and is costing the taxpayers too much money now: